Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is participating in the 2025 Singapore Biennale: pure intention, with a commissioned work located in Fort Gate titled HNZF IV. The exhibition is on view through March 29, 2026, and the curatorial team includes Hsu Fang-Tze, Selene Yap, Duncan Bass, and Ong Puay Khim.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s HNZF (Harsh Noise Zen Fountains) combines aerospace scrap from WWII-era military aircrafts, computer-controlled water pumps and hydrophones into sonic sculptures. Referencing the form of certain outdoor “zen” fountains typically associated with relaxation or meditation, Gork transforms these devices into disruptive generators of noise. HNZF IV draws on the artist’s research into the military history of sound technologies and the various limestone caves of Okinawa, where civilians sought refuge during World War II. At Fort Canning-once a site of British and later Japanese military command on the island-the amplified sound of water echoing through the old Fort gate draws parallels between the experiences of Okinawans, interred Japanese-Americans, and Singapore’s own violent occupation under Japanese rule during the war.
On view from October 22, 2025 through February 15, 2026, the group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. The exhibition features works by several generations of artists, from the 1970s to the present day: some attest to a direct dialogue between theory and practice, others are sometimes subversive tributes, and still others are more allusive correspondences. Key historical artists such as Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Renée Green, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon feature alongside younger artists such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Char Jeré and Cici Wu. The exhibition revisits some of the major figures in American art of recent decades from a fresh perspective. Archival materials throughout the exhibition meanwhile highlight individuals, institutions, and publishers that played a crucial role in disseminating these ideas in the United States.
Breakdown Playlist is on view from October 12, 2025 until March 1, 2026 at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing.
Artistic Director: Carol Yinghua Lu Curators: Clara Chavan, Na Rongkun Exhibition Coordinators: Rory Guan, Juri Mischler Exhibition Assistants: Li Huiyi, Cao Liyao, Li Zejun
Breakdown Playlist brings together works by sixteen artists from China and Switzerland. The exhibition is part of the 2025 cultural exchange projects commemorating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and grew out of the Embassy of Switzerland in China’s CH><CN Studios program. Beginning in August 2025, nine Swiss artists undertook residencies at six Chinese art institutions, namely in Beijing, Chongqing, Dehua, Yantai, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, creating new works based on local observations. Under the guidance of Carol Yinghua Lu, Director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, The exhibition was co-curated by young Swiss curator Clara Chavan and Inside-Out assistant curator Na Rongkun. Building on the selection of Swiss artists, they invited seven Chinese artists to participate, fostering a dialogue between emerging contemporary artists from both countries.
Jonathan Griffin has interviewed Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork for Ocula magazine. “For nearly two decades, Los Angeles-based Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has used sound as a sculptural and architectural medium, as well as sculpture and architecture as acoustic structures to support and manipulate sound. After an early career in noise music, she sidestepped into making installations that incorporate her complex sound works to powerful and atmospheric effect.”
The Gold Art Prize, a series of five awards given biennially to AAPI and Asian diaspora artists, has named this year’s batch of winners, including Dan Lie, Stella Zhong, Morehshin Allahyari, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Kenneth Tam. The prize awards each winner an unrestricted $25,000.
This is the third iteration of the prize, which was launched in 2021 by adviser Kelly Huang and Gold House, a Los Angeles–based organization with a focus on the AAPI community. As with the 2023 edition, the 2025 prize is funded by the Kahng Foundation.
In a statement, Huang said, “I’m proud that the Gold Art Prize has, since 2021, championed artists from the Asian diaspora, and its mission feels more vital than ever today. This year’s awardees reflect an even broader range of diasporic backgrounds, and it’s an honor to celebrate each artist’s contributions to shaping the future of contemporary art.”
The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, takes place from September 19, 2025 – February 28, 2026. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork will be participating with her installation work Variations in Mass Nos. 5, 6, 7, 2024, vinyl, blowers, electronics, and speakers. Collaborators: Viola and violin, Daniel Jacobs; Cello, Zack Reaves; 3D design, Rhett LaRue.
Little Fluffy Clouds is on view at Lagune Ouest in Copenhagen, Demark from September 19 through October 18, 2025. Participating artists include: Rachel Fäth, Doris Guo, Mathias Toubro, Pol Wah Tse, Mille Qvist.
Vunkwan Tam’s solo exhibition, Clear Rivers, is now on view at Loong Mah, New York. Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6PM and by appointment.
Cici Wu is participating in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo with her 2023 film Belonging and Difference. The exhibition will take place from September 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, with free admission. This year’s theme, Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice is inspired by the Afro-Brazilian poet Conceição Evaristo, and this year’s edition includes 125 artists and collectives.
There Is a Crack in Everything, on view from September 5 – December 14, 2025, brings together more than twenty-five international artists whose practices intertwine emotion and form with questions of belonging, identity, and memory. From visible violence to imposed silences, from damages to life to the vulnerability of surrounding environments, these artists explore the human condition in its tensions as well as its possibilities, transforming these realities into imaginings of resistance, displacement, and reinvention. This exhibition is a project of the Jewish Museum In/Out, led by its director Barbara Cuglietta, in collaboration with guest curator Martin Germann.
Raha Raissnia is participating with her film installation Solaria 2022, as well as new paintings.